Hi,
Are there any plans to make the uploading of images a simpler process?
My thoughts would be to be able to specify an image in the wiki mark-up that was actually [[image:c:\path\to\my\image\locally\my image.jpg]].
When the save page is clicked then the parser will check that my image.jpg is unique, and if not then generate a unique name (e.g. my image5.jpg) and then replace the local path with the chosen image name.
Finally you would be taken to a screen with a list of the files that are to be uploaded, with their filenames that they will be uploaded as, and asks you to confirm that there will be no copyright issues (similar to the current one).
If you then do not upload the images you will end up with broken links in your article just like the current method.
This would make the current system a lot easier to use as you would be able to easily place your images as you were writing the article.
Any thoughts?
Graeme
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Thompson, Graeme (AELE) wrote: [snip]
This would make the current system a lot easier to use as you would be able to easily place your images as you were writing the article.
Any thoughts?
Well, depending on what you mean, either you can't do that with HTML or you can already do that in MediaWiki.
1) Put in [[Image:My cool file.jpg]] 2) Save the page 3) Click the red link which takes you to the upload page with that name prefilled 4) Click the browse button to select the file on your local disk 5) Click the upload button.
You can't put in the local path and have it automate the upload, that just doesn't work; you can't preset the path in an HTML file upload element for obvious security reasons. (Hint: the obvious security reason is that you could then cause the browser to silently upload any file from the user's computer to your server when they visit a page you control, if you know the pathname to the file you want.)
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